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The entire venue was silent for a moment, and almost everyone stared at Li Ke and Namikaze Minato in amazement.

Everyone wanted to get enough feedback from Namikaze Minato, but only Li Ke responded to them.

However, Li Ke did not say any more nonsense, but spoke the meat of the story.

"I think everyone should know now that after the war, the salt of the Water Country could not be sold, and there has been a large-scale hoarding phenomenon, and their aquatic products have also been cut off from the sales channels, so people in other places can only eat some river fish. In places like the Wind Country and the Rain Country, the price of salt has tripled or quadrupled. Ten thousand kilograms of salt could only be sold for 20 million taels there before, but now it can be sold for 80 million taels, but this is a number that can be easily eaten, because ten thousand kilograms of salt is enough for a few towns, that is, the consumption of 10,000 people for one or two months."

Li Ke paused, then spoke.

"And the population of the Grass Country alone is more than 5 million, and this is still a population that can be counted. If we can monopolize all the salt trade in this small country, even if they only buy one kilogram of salt per person per year, we can earn 40 billion taels every year. I want to ask, how much can one of us ninjas earn after fighting for life and death in a year, and how much risk is involved?"

Li Ke's words made the ninjas take a deep breath, but Li Ke did not stop.

"An A-level mission may encounter an attack from a jonin team, and the reward is only about 150,000 taels to 1 million taels, while an S-level mission will almost certainly encounter multiple attacks from enemy jonins, and the reward is only about 1 million taels, but what about the risks?"

After he finished speaking, he looked at all the family ninjas present, as well as their leaders, especially Nara Shikaku, a family that actually does business in medicinal materials.

Yes, there are ninja families doing business in Konoha Village. Didn't the Murata family sell charcoal in the past? The Nara clan also specializes in selling medicine from deer.

But the scope is very small, because they are just ninjas after all, and they are just doing business in the village.

"So I am very curious, why can't we Konoha ninjas earn this money ourselves, but let those who need our force to ensure the smooth flow of trade earn it? Why can they watch us fight to death with peace of mind, and then use a tiny part of the money earned with our lives and efforts to pay us? After all, for this world, can you imagine a caravan without ninja protection? It is obviously relying on our efforts and lives that they can build a huge business system, why can't we take the biggest part? Why do we ninjas have to do tasks to make money?"

No one in the field dared to speak, not because they didn't think what Li Ke said made sense.

But they didn't know what to do.

For Li Ke, he naturally knew what to do, but for these rough men who had been chopping people for a lifetime, they didn't know.

And some knew it, but they didn't have the strength and didn't dare to say it.

At present, some people sneered, because Li Ke was just a twelve-year-old child. In their eyes, Li Ke's words were just a child's nonsense, and there was no need to take it seriously.

But at this time, Namikaze Minato spoke.

"Qingtan, if you have any ideas, just speak freely."

Namikaze Minato showed a warm smile. He didn't really understand Li Ke's ideas, but he understood physics and knew that in this world, the one with the bigger fist had the final say.

And he had thought about the problem Li Ke mentioned, but he didn't know what to do to solve the problem, so in the end he just felt that there was something wrong with the ninja system.

But he didn't know where the problem was, he just vaguely noticed something. However, Li Ke's words sorted out his previous thoughts, making him more certain of his guess, but he didn't know what this idea would look like after it was realized, so he didn't dare to be sure.

But Li Ke dared, because he had the qualifications to make mistakes!

As long as Li Ke still loves the village, even if he made a mistake, he has the ability to turn it around!

So, he would choose to support Li Ke.

"It's very simple, doing business, we set up a chamber of commerce, let those who can't become ninjas go to work in our factories and chambers of commerce, and use the information we get to make money. Just like I said, we can organize a caravan, buy from the Land of Water, or set up a salt factory locally, and then send it to the Land of Fields and the Land of Grass. As for the profits obtained, we keep part of it for future development, and the rest is dividends, which are given to the ninja families involved in this matter. The specific goods can be other things. After all, for us ninjas, the information on the prices of various goods sold in various places is too easy for us to get."

Hearing this, Nara Shikaku spoke.

"So, how can we ensure the safety of our factories and chambers of commerce? Those merchants and countries whose interests are frustrated will inevitably react. What if they hire ninjas from other countries to destroy them?"

Hearing this, Li Ke spoke without thinking.

"Sufficient money means sufficient ninjas. We can pay ninjas from other ninja villages to protect our factories, or we can hire ninjas from other villages at high salaries, or bribe daimyos from other countries or even ninja villages with money. We can force those defeated villages not to attack our factories and caravans, or even send people to protect them... Of course, we just give them money. Just pay them according to the A or even S-level mission money, what else can they say? Or... after being defeated, they still want to wage war and destroy our factories? Or work without effort, and get a reputation of not taking the mission seriously and failing to complete the mission?"

After a pause, Li Ke continued.

"On the one hand, you can get a lot of money, the people in the ninja village can get jobs, reduce economic pressure, restore production capacity and manpower, and kidnap part of our power to deter people from other countries... On the other hand, you provoke enemies that you can't afford to provoke, and you may even suffer a huge blow... What will you choose?"

The various ninja families finally understood how Li Ke was going to operate, but they still had a problem.

"So, what if the daimyo of each country wants to attack us?"

The question was asked by Nara Shikaku, the smartest person.

At this time, Li Ke showed a bright smile.

"Then tell them."

He pointed at himself.

"They issued an order in the morning, and a ninja who knows Flying Thunder God will defect in the afternoon. It's really curious, who will this defector be? Will he attack the daimyo and the families within the nine clans of the officials who manage these things? Oh, it's really worrying."

There was complete silence in the field.

Well, that's all for today...

I overslept today...

I still have two books to write later...